Testing has been a pillar of the State’s response to COVID-19 for the past year. The increasingly widespread availability of testing resources and available laboratories made it possible for the State of Missouri to host intermittent testing events in communities throughout the state to provide greater accessibility to testing options and to learn more about […]
A few Future Business Leaders of America members from Trenton High School will represent the school at the State Leadership Conference after placing at the District Leadership Conference. Olivia Roberts and Emma Roberts received first place in Business Financial Plan at the district level. Those placing second include Mari Atup and Cole Soptic in Business […]
An elected Missouri State Representative has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a fraud scheme in which she made false claims about a supposed stem cell treatment marketed through her clinics in southern Missouri, and for illegally providing prescription drugs to clients of those clinics. Derges, a Republican, represents Christian County (District 140) […]
It is almost harvest time on the Gottman farms in rural northeastern Missouri. Trees blushed with shades of scarlet, saffron, and sage edge mouse-brown soybean fields. The air is crisp; the sky a palette of blues. From the combine cab, Tim Gottman will remember his gentle-hearted son’s birthday on Sept. 27. Toby would have been […]
A Missouri man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm. Keyshaun Isaiah Jackson, 23, of Springfield, Missouri, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool on Wednesday, Aug. 19, to 15 years in federal prison without parole. Jackson was sentenced as an armed career criminal due to his prior felony […]
The Linn County Health Department reported it’s been informed of the death of a Linn County resident due to COVID-19. The health department noted the individual had what it described as underlying medical conditions. Linn County Health Department stated it will not release any further information concerning the death. Linn is the first county within […]
Some defendants received prison sentences, others were placed on probation during Thursday’s session of Division One of Grundy County Circuit Court on April 11, 2019. April Dawn Hanson of Trenton pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance. A drug paraphernalia charge was dismissed. She was sentenced to four years with the Department of Corrections. […]
The following is a listing of general highway maintenance and construction work the Missouri Department of Transportation has planned in North Missouri for the week of April 8 – 14. Continued flooding may cause schedule changes in some of the planned work. There may also be moving operations throughout the region such as pothole patching, […]
The Trenton Police Department will participate in Occupant Protection Seat Belt Enforcement Day next week. Trenton police officers will conduct extra enforcement April 11th regarding seat belt compliance. The police department reports 160 were killed in Missouri crashes as of March 31st compared to 190 for the same period last year. Sixty-three percent of vehicle […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Trenton resident Tuesday on a capias warrant on a probation violation. Thirty-one-year-old Bobbie Jo Dunkin is accused of violating her probation on an original felony charge of possession of a controlled substance. Bond was set at $10,000, with 10% cash approved, and she is scheduled […]
Among cases Tuesday in the Associate Division of Grundy County Circuit Court, Duane Shiner of Lexington appeared via Polycom video communication and waived a preliminary hearing on five felony counts. The cases were bound over to the May 16th docket in Division One of circuit court. Shiner was arrested following a law enforcement pursuit east […]
The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest Monday of two area residents on capias warrants on probation violations and one resident on drug-related charges. Twenty-two year old Joseph Martin Herrity the Third (III) of Chillicothe and 18-year-old David Clay Austin Travis of Spickard are accused of violating their probations. They were both originally charged […]
